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John Barnier
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Aug 25, 2007, 10:09 PM
 
Hi,
I did a very stupid thing (although accidental). I threw the "system" folder (not the "system Folder") into the trash by mistake. I thought i could simply drag it back out, but it tries to copy it to the desktop instead. Trouble is...I don't have enough free space for it to copy. I hooked up an extrenal hard drive to copy to, but it won't show up on the desktop.

Any suggestions?????

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Aug 26, 2007, 09:49 AM
 
That's unfortunate yet sort of funny. I didn't know that was possible.

Have you tried holding down the Option key while dragging it back out?

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Aug 26, 2007, 10:30 AM
 
Why are you trying to move it to the desktop?

Move it to the topmost level of the hard drive!
     
John Barnier  (op)
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Aug 26, 2007, 06:05 PM
 
Thanks for the suggestions but neither of them worked. It want:confuseds to copy no matter what I do. Also, the trash icon isn't the usual trash can, it's a document icon. Any idea if that matters????

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Big Mac
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Aug 26, 2007, 06:10 PM
 
Reinstall: Archive and Install

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Aug 27, 2007, 01:55 AM
 
Are you sure it's not still where it's supposed to be? Most of the time, you can't move that folder.
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